Big Tech And Our Future

This is scary. Even asking questions may bring down, as yet unknowable, consequences. You may well want to give up and live in a shack in the middle of nowhere. This is fine, and good luck, but it’s not where I am.

Mostly for my own benefit, I need to pose some questions and answer them as rationally as I can. I need, in my own small way, to be pragmatic about the actions I can take, and my expectations of the actions of others.

Alternatives in UK

If the UK is to become anything other than a digital vassal of the US, we have to have a nose-to-tail digital service infrastructure…

What I mean is… how many digital products, platforms and services are built on Big Tech foundations? It’s incredibly hard to find UK owned and run services. Many, many service-tier offerings (after all, we’re a nation of digital greengrocers), but it’s quite tricky to find replacements for things like Vercel, Digital Ocean or even Dropbox.